Interstellar (2014) Play Movie

After the first hour, with its poignant depiction of humanity's decline, Interstellar always seems to be rebuilding its momentum, offering plenty to think about but little to hold on to.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. This movie is an epic action movie...

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Blade: Trinity (2004) Online Streaming

Lacks anything vaguely resembling a plot, while failing to deliver suspense or thrills.. Watching Blade: Trinity is like being rolled down a marble staircase in an oil drum. The movie is loud, dark, bumpy and not even a little fun.. Diverting but dumb and more goth than gothic, Blade: Trinity builds up to a less-than-epochal smackdown.. This year's entry in the Movies You Admire and Respect but Don't...

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The Martian (2015) Full Streaming

Turns out getting stranded on Mars can lead to a whole lot of fun.. The film is a profound testament to the rare-and underrated-virtue of simply not screwing anything up.. This is science fiction for sophisticated audiences and, as such, a fulfilling and satisfying experience.. It's a brisk, funny piece of competence-porn sci-fi.. A tremendously exciting popcorn spectacle, and also a portrait of extraplanetary...

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The A-Team (2010) Play Movie

The A-Team is reasonably good fun. If you're a 12-year-old boy riding an intense Cherry Pepsi buzz and totally devoted to destroying some brain cells, that is.. I pity the fool who fails to share the popcorn.. The characters ... are without interest. Their problems are not our problems. But the sheer motion, the spectacle and the flashes of wit take The A-Team out of the realm of garbage. It's fun.....

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Stardust (2007) Watch Full Movie

An overstuffed, overlong epic with a tongue-in-cheek approach that repeatedly begs unfavorable comparisons with The Princess Bride.. Stardust suffers from uneven pacing and some cheesy-looking special effects. But the fine cast keeps things watchable.. . Stardust [feels] episodic and clunky, constantly straining for the impression of overall coherent design that Gaiman renders invisible.. . Everybody...

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Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) Full Streaming

For the most part, "Avengers: Age of Ultron" is the hard-charging, mind-boggling spectacle fans are looking for. Smash indeed.. The amazing thing about Avengers: Age of Ultron is that it's reasonably enjoyable while feeling less like a movie than an epic sowing of seeds for multiple Marvel properties.. As before, the greatest fun is in watching the original Avengers, all fine actors who've made the...

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Alice in Wonderland (2010) Full Streaming

Indecision haunts every frame. The result is a clattering, hectic spectacle that by the end has run out of inspiration. It's a home for abandoned ideas.. No knockouts here. No tkos, either.. . . Its single biggest failing -- an affront to Lewis Carroll and the charms of nonsense literature -- is the fact that it makes sense.. Burton, one of the great visual artists in Hollywood history, is incapable...

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